WSFR employee donates paycheck after good 'Choir' concert turnout

Dec. 6, 2012

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Windsor-Severance Fire Rescue’s choir concert Wednesday night didn’t just give audience members the opportunity to enjoy some quality tunes. It also allowed WSFR employee Tracy Post to do a little good.

Post announced on the district’s Facebook page that if more than 100 badged fire personnel showed up to the event — which was put on as the finale to weeks of practice and filming for the USA Network reality show “The Choir” — she would donate her January paycheck to the Children’s Hospital Burn Center.

In response, fire personnel showed up in droves, as did the rest of the town of Windsor.

Post will donate her check, and the Windsor-Severance Fire Union will match the amount, said WSFR spokesman Todd Vess.

Vess said the turnout for the event was incredible, calling the whole experience a “whirlwind.”

“Walking out and seeing the audience, seeing that people actually came to the show,” Vess said, “that was really cool.”

“I think it went really well,” he added. “I got a lot of text messages and phone calls afterward about how much people enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun, that’s for sure.”

Producers from the USA Network had been filming since late November and packed their bags last night after the performance, which featured 30 WSFR employees, including firefighters and a dispatcher.

The show is set to premiere in late February or early March, but Vess said they’ll know more closer to the date.